Saving the UK's heritage

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) helps to save some of our most-loved treasures from being lost forever.

The NHMF was founded in 1980 with the passing of the National Heritage Act as a memorial to those who have given their lives for the UK.

A resource of last resort, the NHMF provides financial assistance towards the acquisition, preservation and maintenance of some of the UK’s finest objects and landscapes, from trains to artworks, wildlife havens to manuscripts.

It is hard to think of such iconic heritage leaving the country or even simply rotting away, yet without the NHMF, many treasured items and places would have been lost.

Sir Peter Luff, Chair of NHMF

Over the past three decades, NHMF has saved more than 1,200 iconic objects and places including;